Interview: Zimbabwe Ambassador

LaRouche Show Interview: Zimbabwe Ambassador Mapuranga

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Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Machivenyika Mapuranga,was the featured guest on the LaRouche Show Saturday, April 12.
In dialogue with EIR's Lawrence Freeman and Portia Tarumbwa Strid, Ambassador Mapuranga provided the historical backdrop to the current British power play in Zimbabwe. Freeman reminded the audience that this is one of many British power plays and destabilizations around the globe today, as the Brits attempt to ensure their hold on power, now that their financial system has collapsed. Ambassador Mapuranga explained that the current delay in finalizing the presidential vote count in Zimbabwe is the result of numerous discrepancies between the results posted publicly at the 8,000 polling places, and the tally sheets sent to Harare. He also referred to the tension created in the country by opposition leader and British tool Morgan Tsvangirai, who claims to have won the presidency -- without need for a runoff -- with 50.3% of the
vote. His 50.3% is his unsupported claim, but {even if it were true}, 51% is needed to avoid a runoff, under the Constitution. Tsvangirai is steered and paid for by the British. This is no secret, Mapuranga said: The three major British parties -- Conservative, Labour, and Liberal -- vie with each other in the size of their contributions to the relevant conduit, the Westminster Foundation, whose website anyone can visit. In 2007, a State Department report said point blank that the U.S. is supporting Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Before independence in 1980, Ambassador Mapuranga explained, Zimbabwe -- or Southern Rhodesia as it then was -- was one of the five British imperial "white man's countries" in the common parlance of British official correspondence preserved in the Public Record Office [now renamed the National Archives]. Those five were Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Southern Rhodesia. The plan was to increase the white populations of the latter two until they outnumbered the Africans. In Southern Rhodesia, the ratio went from 1:17,000 in the 1890s when the British first conquered the country, to 1:13 in 1961, at the peak. The Brits took the best lands and herded the African majority into "Native Reserves" of only 25% of the territory. "That's why we had to fight a 14-year war of independence, from 1966-1979," and why the British {still} think they own the place. What especially worries the British is the Zimbabwe government's return of land from European settlers to Africans, and that South Africa and Namibia have begun to follow Zimbabwe's lead, even if only on a small scale so far. Sanctions began after the start of the land redistribution program in 2000. But the standard British and State Department line is, "What sanctions? We only have `targetted sanctions' against the funds and travel of government leaders," which is a total lie. For example, the British-inspired U.S. Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 instructed all U.S. members of international financial institutions to oppose and vote against any loans, credits, or guarantees for Zimbabwe. In 2004, Prime Minister Tony Blair said publicly, "Our policy toward Zimbabwe is regime change." Did he propose to do that with nothing more than "targetted sanctions" and support for Tsvangirai? Another deception, according to Portia Tarumbwa Strid, is the claim that the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy is not the result of the economic vise-grip (which of course, doesn't exist!), but rather because Africans don't know how to farm. She pointed out that the big white-owned farms were operated and managed by Africans! The white cash-crop policies were the problem. What Zimbabwe needs is water management systems, other infrastructure, nuclear power, and nuclear irradiation to prevent crop spoilage. Other African leaders support Mugabe, Ambassador Mapuranga said, because they know that if the Brits get control of Zimbabwe, their countries will be next. That applies with special force to South Africa. There is a new determination of African people to take their destiny into their own hands, Portia Tarumbwa Strid emphasized, but they are being obstructed by the British and their allies.

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[stellastar63]

Edited:-The opening makes a very profound statement about the reasons for the current situation in Zimbabwe, more so FOR those who do not understand the machinations of the UK & US.Mbeki & SADC understand the "real deal" - let's wait and see what the rest do ..in terms of land reform !The rest of it is very enlightening. Thank you-please air it on Aljeezera or other "sympathetic" TV networks. Africans need to educate each other about colonialism and its purposes. It's all about OUR wealth!

[philcharleyrob]

I am open minded as to the realities of what is happening in Zimbabwe. Up until now I have only been aware of the BBC and British newspaper's versions. However, it was uncomfortable to watch the exchange about natives and "reserves", and must have been more so for the American audience.

[calorus]

"The best way to safeguard crops is Nuclear Radiation, it keeps away pests and diseases like environmentalists and things like that"

Porsche, you are an idiot.

[maria610421]

@philcharleyrob: Most of what is going on is engineered, to get Puppet of the British establishment, Morgan Tsvangirai, who would serve the interest of the UK, the santions that has been put on Zimbabwe has crippled the economy. Gordon Brown was behind the distruction of Zimbabwe economy. When you don't do what they want they wage wars against the country, people must expose these ills.

[totolondon]

ambassador mugabe killed lots of blacks people ,can you blame the british for green bombers who beat up people etc ,

[duxberry1958]

a smart dress ambassador i wonder how many people in rhodesia are starving. PS a nice none rhodesia accent

[mookergee]

the ambassador forgot to tell us that 3 million of his countrymen 99% black have left mugabes paradise,the country is bankrupt.the airport in harare can only operate during the day due to the electric cuts to its system, god help zimbabwe

[intrepeco]

Kraymin if there is any body who is utmost ignorant is you. west couldnt 'overthrow' apartheid the PEOPLE resistance did and created political pressure for the west to act. Reagan and Thatcher govts were against economic sanctions to the apartheid gvt under the excuses that they would have hurt blacks more than whites as they were business partners; look at Zimbabwe now. no sanctions? there're leadership problems in Africa but when there is foreign hypocrisy lets call spade a spade.

[intrepeco]

It is on white supremacy that you campaign for that cycle of hate wont end; coz for people like you if hate and racism have been thrown away what would you still have left? Freedom fighters made Cs unexploitable plus quest for freedom after WWII was unstoppable. Fighting resistant rebel groups all over Africa made colonialism more expensive in terms of Finance and white personnel killed than current neocolonialism. they didnt have a choice were forced same way US lost in Vietnam and ran.

[l0vef00l0s0pher]

you can see how nervous he is in the video. around the 11 min mark. watch what he does with his legs.

[kraymin]

Not true..based on ignorance not facts. It was white nations with all the power that were primarily responsible for overthrowing and negotiating the end of apartheid.

If not for white countries stepping in and saying "no business as usual" you'de still be under colonial rule.

What whites did in Africa is despicable and horrendous. But unless we stop the cycle of hate and lead by example we will all be dead and gone and the bacteria will laugh at our "intelligence" as they eat our remains.

[Popajaja]

Zimbabwe is at war with foreign elements using local puppets...